All you need to know is that the Fed's target rate is vastly important to the global financial system, and it has far-reaching effects on all manner of interest rates.

The U.S. was named the hottest market for global property investors in a survey of 14 countries by global real estate advisors Savills...http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/15/real_estate/real-e...

I worked 10 years for the consulting arm of a big 4 accounting firm, helping Global Investment Banks, Insurance Firms, Multinational Asset Managers, and Hedge Funds improve their back office operations, specializing in implementing investment performance measurement systems.

If we take the Fed at their word, and if we forego any concerns about increasingly weak global economic growth, there is certainly more risk that rates move quickly higher vs quickly lower.

Expect the next big real estate bubble crash to be a global meltdown involving China, Japan and Europe and it will be way worse than 2008.

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For example Emerging Trends in RealEstate – The global outlook for 2015 or America’s Rental Housing – Harvard Studies or n.number or published articles and books.At the end of the day you have to look at both macro and micro economic factors so that you are aware of what’s going on globally and it’s local implications you also need to have a deep understanding of your farming areas and know a good deal from bad one.

Most recently, I was a global business analyst for a global gold mining company.

Hi BP Pros,Anybody have experience with refinancing an entire rental property portfolio under one global loan?

The global economies have such weakness this artificially elevates the dollar.